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Re: HELP Needed in XPATH.

• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Subject: Re: HELP Needed in XPATH.
• From: Jens Stavnstrup <js@d...>
• Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:15:53 +0200 (CEST)
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• Reply-to: Jens Stavnstrup <js@d...>

Eric,

Except that statement is not correct, but remain there for historical
reasons. XPath was originally part of XSL, but was separated a long time ago.
So XSL consists only of two documents (at least the 1.0 version).

Regards,

Jens

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Eric van der Vlist wrote:

> Satish,
>
>
> Le mardi 27 septembre 2005 à 17:15 +0530, Satish S a écrit :
> > Can anyone tell me, whatâ??s is XPATH and howâ??s its been used in XSL FO?
>
> <quote from="http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/">
>
> XSL is a family of recommendations for defining XML document
> transformation and presentation. It consists of three parts:
>
>       * XSL Transformations (XSLT) a language for transforming XML
>       * the XML Path Language (XPath) an expression language used by
>         XSLT to access or refer to parts of an XML document. (XPath is
>         also used by the XML Linking specification)
>       * XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) an XML vocabulary for specifying
>         formatting semantics
>
> </quote>
>
> In other words, a typical way to create an XSL-FO document is to
> generate this document with a XSLT transformation and XPath is the
> language that you'll be using in this XSLT transformation to access the
> source document that needs to be converted.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Eric
> >
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